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Draft:Committee Against the Deportation of Immigrant Women

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  • Comment: This needs some context as to what this is. Is it a private organization? When was it established? Is it still active today? What are its major activities, as referenced by external news sources? AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 19:17, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

The Committee Against the Deportation of Immigrant Women (CADIW) was formed by three women, including Sherona Hall and Dionne Brand in response to a case in 1977 where Canada’s immigration department threatened nine Jamaican domestic workers with deportation because they did not record their children when immigrating.[1] However, the women state that the immigration officials told them not to record their children.[2] The three women formed the Committee as this situation was common among Caribbean migrant workers.[3][4][5][6] The case was dubbed “The Seven Jamaican Mothers,” although more than seven Jamaican women were being deported.[2][7] Brand and Hall cited other reasons for starting the CADIW, such as Canada forcing immigrants to work for low wages and blaming its unemployment problems on immigrants.[8]

The CADIW argued that cases like this were not just racial discrimination but also gender discrimination since the Canadian government only targeted single mothers, not single fathers, and men were not asked about children when immigrating.[5] Dionne Brand recalls members of the CADIW being “disillusioned” with organizations by the Black community.[9] Sherona Hall stated that while she was not against male-led organizations, she believed a women’s organization would most effectively solve these issues.[5][9] The CADIW made efforts to work with white feminist organizations, such as Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW) and the Toronto International Women’s Day Committee.[9] These organizations were reluctant, and it took Brand almost ten years to get them to connect feminism and racism struggles.[4]

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  1. ^ Sangster, Joan (2021). Demanding Equality: One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism. Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press. p. 343. ISBN 9780774866064.
  2. ^ a b Silvera, Makeda (1989). Silenced (Revised ed.). Toronto : Sister Vision Press. pp. VI. ISBN 0920813739.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  3. ^ Lawson, Erica (2013). "The Gendered Working Lives of Seven Jamaican Women in Canada: A Story about "Here" and "There" in a Transnational Economy". Feminist Formations. 25: 150 – via JSTOR.
  4. ^ a b McKenna, Emma (2019). The Labour Feminism Takes: Tracing Intersectional Politics in 1980s Canadian Feminist Periodicals. [PhD thesis, McMaster University].
  5. ^ a b c Silvera, Makeda (2006). "Sherona Hall April 26, 1948-December 30, 2006: A Tribute". Canadian Women Studies/les cahiers de la femme. 25 (3–4): 200.
  6. ^ Tungohan, Ethel Antoinette (2014). From the Politics of Everyday Resistance to the Politics From Below: Migrant Care Worker Activism in Canada. [PhD thesis, University of Toronto].
  7. ^ Chancy, Myriam J. A. (1997). Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile. Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press. p. 97. ISBN 1566395399.
  8. ^ "Black History Month: Black facts for February 28". Ontario Public Service Employees Union. 30 January 2018.
  9. ^ a b c Rebick, Judy (2005). Ten Thousand Roses: The Making Of A Feminist Revolution. Toronto : Penguin Canada. pp. 121–122. ISBN 0143015443.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
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